Enjoy our CV version of an i-player for computer, whiteboard or home TV. Select a starting video from this playlist, then browse others full screen using the showcase navigation arrows. The showcase is like a TV box set, and contains hours and hours of non-stop viewing. The blue links in the playlist tell you where each video is located for teaching purposes. You can start each school day with a new video and more. Use the text under video 1 as a guide for usage.

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A hugely exciting sport video with many uses.
Supports: textbooks Science forces (6E)
Note: this kind of video can be used in many situations. Makes a list of 10 things you can use it for, for example, 1 gravity, 2 wind resistance, 3 nylon material, 4 ABS material (helmet), 5... the list is endless. Movies are very versatile. Use this video when teaching all of those topics and more. Make sure you have 5 or more questions prepared so that videos are not passive watching.
Playing time: 2 min

Why do kiteboarders need science?
A very graceful and exciting sport video with many uses.
Supports: textbooks Science forces in action (6E) and Flight including friction (4E)
Note: this kind of video can be used in many situations and not just science but also sport and geography.
Playing time: 5 min

Why do we make our beaches so ugly?
Groynes are found on many beaches, but why are they necessary, and why are they in some places and not others.
Supports: textbook The Coast Book
Playing time: 4 min

The largest Roman fort north of the Alps
This is a famous fortress built by the Romans on the south coast of England. It was so large that it dwarfs the castle built inside it in later years.
Supports: textbook Ancient Rome, Romans in Britain
Playing time: 5 min

Stone Age burial chamber
This is a famous long barrow on the Berkshire Downs. The inspirational aerial view helps to set the barrow in its correct landscape context.
Supports: textbook Stone Age
Playing time: 3 min

Origin of markets
A really valuable ground and air view with diagrams to show how a market developed close to a river bridging point.
Supports: textbooks Where we live (settlement): Saxons, Vikings, Tudors. This is a classic video to support both history (saxons/vikings/medieval/tudors) as well as geography settlement.
Note: the second part of this video has music but no voice-over to give an opportunity to look at the buildings carefully.
Playing time: 3 min

Cheetah
One of the 5 big cats.
Supports: textbooks 'Safari' and also Science Habitats. Use it also for food chains, savanna climate, camouflage, and more.
Playing time: 1 min

Rhinoceros
The second-largest land mammal.
Supports: textbooks 'Safari' and also Science Habitats and endangered animals
Playing time: 1 min

Tarantula
A very large spider.
Supports: textbooks Science Habitats
Playing time: 1 min